2000/514/EC: Commission Decision of 22 December 1999 on State aid which Italy plans to grant to Fiat Auto SpA for its Mirafiori Meccanica plant (Turin) (notified under document number C(1999) 5211) (Text with EEA relevance) (Only the Italian text is authentic)

• Articles: 3

Article 1

The State aid that Italy plans to grant to Fiat Auto SpA for its Mirafiori Meccanica plant (Turin) is incompatible with the common market.

The aid shall consequently not be put into effect.

Article 2

Italy shall inform the Commission, within two months of the date of notification of this Decision, of the measures it has taken to comply with it.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1999.

For the Commission

Mario Monti

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ C 120, 1.5.1999, p. 6 and OJ C 288, 9.10.1999, p. 37.

(2) See footnote 1.

(3) See footnote 1.

(4) Source: Automotive News Europe.

(5) OJ C 279, 15.9.1997.

(6) See the judgement of the Court of Justice of 17 September 1980 in Case 730/79 Philip Morris [1980] ECR 2671, paragraph 17.

(7) OJ C 70, 6.3.1998, p. 7.

(8) OJ C 409, 30.12.1998, p. 7 and OJ C 384, 12.12.1998, p. 20.

(9) OJ C 240, 31.7.1998, p. 3.

(10) OJ C 37, 11.2.1993, p. 15.

(11) Since Fiat was not the sole shareholder in those companies.

(12) Owing to the existence of components common to the Torque and the 138 engine, which remained in production at Mirafiori.